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Author, editor, yogi | Meat, bitcoin, chess | calling BS on most things

I never comment on YouTube, a line I've held pretty consistently forever. But if you say it's that good, I'll support it with my eyeballs

Nostr isn't down.

Bitcoin isn't down.

#cloudflare #chaos #fiat

Wow, every word he just said there was wrong.

For years, President Donald Trump complained that his predecessor had weaponized the judicial system against him on what he claimed were trumped-up charges, including election interference, mishandling classified documents, hush-money payments, and fraudulent tax and property dealings.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, the president seems wholly uninterested in stopping the very weaponization he once railed against.

This week, Keonne Rodriguez, the co-creator of the bitcoin privacy wallet Samourai, was sentenced to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine—the maximum sentence under the charge for which he pleaded guilty earlier this year. "In July, Rodriguez and his cofounder William Hill plead[ed] guilty [to] the known transmission of illicit proceeds," nostr:nprofile1qqs9wsu887m90qrxeug5p2wnrcmglddtsjlc4dys0uh62rgw442u0sqnadkaf reported on Thursday.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration publicly stated that it would cease prosecuting developers for writing code. In the months since, several bitcoin services that had shut off access for Americans in fear of legal repercussions have returned. The White House proclaims America to be the "crypto capital of the world," adding the laughably incoherent statement that "all the remaining Bitcoin [will] be made in the USA."

It's time for the Trump administration to get its legal house in order—that should start with a pardon for Rodriguez.

https://reason.com/2025/11/07/trump-vowed-to-stop-crypto-crackdowns-samourai-wallet-proves-he-hasnt/

Replying to Avatar Shortfiat

I agree with everything that Matt says in this video, with one slight caveat. The way to get the bitcoin that you want is to vote with your money. That is your power.

If the BTC444 fork starts with just 5% of the mining network, then it can start to get traction. The thing that will make the miners switch, is if the price of the new fork is higher than its relative hash power. For example, if the price of BTC444 is 10% of the old btc price and it has only 5% of the hash, then it is twice as profitable for the miners to mine BTC444 rather than the old one.

Miners are economically incentivesed actors, they will produce what people will pay for.

After the fork everyone will have both versions of bitcoin in their wallet. You can sit tight and play it safe, that way you will certainly end up with the winning bitcoin either way.

Alternatively, you can become an active part of shaping the future of bitcion by selling some of your spam chain bitcion for some clean chain bitcoin. It will be quite cheap at first.

Pay for the bitcoin that want to own and miners will produce what you pay for.

This is how capitalism is supposed to work.

The core devs are attempting a coup, but we have the real power.

If you think about how almost all of the OG bitcoin hodlers really don't like ordinals, then you can probably have a good guess as to who is going to win!

Peter Todd hates bitcoin and he wants to tear it all down.

He made a film in which he pretended to be satoshi.

He persistently proposes that we extend bitcoin beyond the 21m limit.

He is bullying the bitcoin core devs into expanding OP_RETURN. I have been to bitdevs meetings and I've seen it happen.

The only thing that we can do with 100KB that we can't do with 80 bytes is put more non financial data on the blockchain.

The CSAM threat is real. That is what central bankers want, it is what governments want, it is what shitcoin projects want and it is what Peter Todd wants.

They want to see bitcion fall.

Thank you nostr:nprofile1qqsggcc8dz9qnmq399n7kp2yu79fazxy3ag8ztpea4y3lu4klgqe46qppamhxue69uhku6n4d4czumt99uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skuep026j8ly for highlighting this topic for us.

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LOL, good luck with that.

Pathetic

This was a nice feeling.

MY GOD IT'S BEEN A LONG GRIND

Replying to Avatar UNCLE ROCKSTAR

Bitcoin is already, by far, the best privacy coin.

What is left now is to teach the history of how we got here - recognizing pioneers like Wasabi and Samurai - and learn from it.

Even more importantly - spread the knowledge on how to use the right tools: eCash, Boltz swaps, RoboSats, solid wallets like AquaBitcoin & BullBitcoin, and merchant platforms such as nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsymkvl9.

It's critical that most Bitcoin stays no-KYC. Anything less than a supermajority pushes us toward a dystopian future - one already previewed in Sweden, where anyone can legally look up your home address and Bitcoin holdings in a public, government-mandated registry. I don't think anyone sane wants to live in the chaos of that type of world.

See you today at Lugano PlanB P2P Stage, 3 PM where I'll be talking with SethForPrivacy, nostr:nprofile1qqsw79gu0guq7s98t473fyavx3akwaafmx6l5z4rehd50lrcl2mf4zcprfmhxue69uhkzer4d36zuvfcwpk82uewwdhkx6tpdshsz9mhwden5te0v96xcctn9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme094u090, nostr:nprofile1qqst0mtgkp3du662ztj3l4fgts0purksu5fgek5n4vgmg9gt2hkn9lqpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuct60fsk6mewdejhgtc3dn6yh and nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcprfmhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5hszxthwden5te0wpex2mtfw4kjuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcuauf96 about one of my favorite topics.

No privacy, no freedom ✊🗽

Where did you get the notion that Swedes' bitcoin holdings are available "in a public, government-mandated registry"?

A quiet place to think.

New England as the leaves change is maaagic

There's like seven of these sorts of books in every bookstore. Very odd.

"Then they laugh at you" stage...?

Average American is dumber than average European; top Americans better/smarter/higher achieving than top European; worst American worst than worst European.

Fatter(!) tails, basically, but lower altogether distribution

Nope... Gotta represent/collect all the conference I attend!

What I do on my spare time

My lunch (dessert!) was better than yours

irrelevant distraction.

There's no good fix, just de-escalate and leave people alone

Find somebody who looks at you the way I look at local, award-winning smoked ham <3

It's been a while (78 goddamn days...) but I. AM. BACK.

#chess #grind #life

...and yes, the graph looks like a BTC/USD chart. Related?!